Monthly Archives: December 2007

Speed e-Racer

1141 words I’m a lousy typ­ist, but I do know a little html.

December 28, 2007 – 8:00 pm | By thunderchikin | Posted in Zen | Comments (8)

Christmas Potty Humor

Fifth grader: Dad, look.  Mom’s got a recipe for pecan balls. Me: Yep. They’re yummy. Fifth grader: No, pecan balls.  A recipe for PEE-can balls, get it? PEE-can BALLS? Her first attempt at dou­ble enten­dre.  I’m so proud.

December 23, 2007 – 2:11 pm | By thunderchikin | Posted in Zen | Comments (8)

Ken Smith, Writer

The most fun I’ve since The Call has been shar­ing the news with the many peo­ple who have helped me along the way.  One per­son that I looked most for­ward to telling was my excel­lent writ­ing teacher, Ken Smith, a cre­ative writ­ing pro­fes­sor at UT Chat­tanooga.  Ken helped me get pub­lished in lit­er­ary mag­a­zines in …

December 22, 2007 – 10:35 pm | By thunderchikin | Posted in Zen | Comments (2)

Deal Posted in PW’s Childrens’ Bookshelf

Under the right col­umn “Rights Report“http://tinyurl.com/2ne7vx

December 20, 2007 – 5:36 pm | By thunderchikin | Posted in Zen | Comments (11)

Loose Ends

The response to the Ketchin­gup post was over­whelm­ing. Thanks to every­one who posted and to all the folks who friended me.  The pub­lish­ing indus­try is on hol­i­day, so I don’t expect any news until after New Years.  After a week of con­stantly check­ing email and voice­mail, I find myself at loose ends.  I guess I …

December 20, 2007 – 9:03 am | By thunderchikin | Posted in Zen | Comments (1)

The Whole Enchilada

Y’know those sto­ries writ­ers tell about how the title got changed a cou­ple of months into edit­ing?  Not me, boy. Mine got changed before edit­ing even started.  As a cou­ple of male edi­tors at Harper­Collins pointed out, it seems that  ‘soul taco’ is slang for well, you can look up all the dif­fer­ent pre­jo­ra­tive ref­er­ences …

December 19, 2007 – 4:53 pm | By thunderchikin | Posted in Blog | Comments (17)

We’ve Got Some Ketchingup to Do

Had enough of the Antic­i­pa­tion theme?  Me, too. No condi­ments this time, just real news. This has been in the works for a week, and I’ve been about to pop the whole time. Mon­day, my won­der­ful agent sold SOUL TACO ENCHILADA to Vir­ginia Dun­can at Greenwillow/HarperCollins, as part of a two-book deal.  Pub­li­ca­tion is set for …

December 19, 2007 – 9:37 am | By thunderchikin | Posted in Blog | Comments (56)